Our Bookbinding Core Certificate Program introduces students to four different binding models, leading them through the history and evolution of bookmaking.

Students will be guided through the basics of creating faux postage (a.k.a “artist stamps”) using a variety of different mixed media techniques.

In this second Core Bookbinding class, students will create what most of us refer to as a hardbound book. In bookbinding terms, it is known as a case binding.

This class introduces the process, the materials, the machines, and the satisfaction of printing by hand on a Cylinder proof press.

Is your pasta machine taking up too much space in the kitchen? Move it to your studio instead and learn how to use it for printing small dry-point prints.

In this second Core Bookbinding class, students will create what most of us refer to as a hardbound book. In bookbinding terms, it is known as a case binding.

You may have heard of the Book of Rooms. Now find out how to make the deluxe version… a Book of Rooms and Chambers!

Protect prints and books in elegant lift-top presentation boxes. In this class you will design and construct a custom lift-top box to your own specifications.

The four class Cylinder Core Certificate Program allows students to quickly learn letterpress basics and become certified to rent studio time.

Increase your letterpress versatility: learn to set up the press, refine your registration skills, and run an edition of your own small poster!

In centuries past, books were sometimes sewn onto cords and then laced into soft covers before being bound. In this class students will bind a book employing thick paper as a folded and laced wrapper.

This class introduces the process, the materials, the machines, and the satisfaction of printing by hand on a Cylinder proof press.

This, the first of our Core Bookbinding series, introduces students to the craft with the Coptic stitch, one of the earliest structures in binding.

This marbling lab takes the art of traditional paper marbling to a new level by introducing metallics to the pigments normally used and experimenting with over-marbling techniques.

Print illustrations like it's 1789! Learn to engrave a wood block for reproduction via letterpress or hand inking.

Alchemy is more than just turning lead into gold. Trace the history of the process, learn about its applications and identify ways that you can use alchemical influences in your own art.

If you’ve ever been curious about how to make a book, Introduction to Bookbinding is the place to start. One workshop, five booklets!

Learn to print your own charming postcards on our small-format tabletop presses.

Explore the possibilities of making prints from flowers, plants, and other materials found in nature in this two-day workshop.

Our Bookbinding Core Certificate Program introduces students to four different binding models, leading them through the history and evolution of bookmaking.

Looking to create a book or album from individual sheets of paper? This binding structure has a bit of Victorian Era flair and uses book cloth to attach single pages for an album that lays flat when opened.

Colorful and fun, this method of decorating paper is easy to learn and the papers created can be used for many purposes.

The final class in our Core Bookbinding series uses skills learned in each previous class to create a beautiful and classic rounded back cloth binding.